Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions: Looking Past COVID-19 (Tcrp Report, Nchrp Report)

By National Academy of Medicine, and Medicine National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemic and Seasonal Influenza Preparedness and Response, Ellen Schenk, Patricia García, Alexander Capron The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world's preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal and pandemic influenza remain imminent global health threats. Non-vaccine public health control measures can combat emerging and ongoing influenza outbreaks by mitigating viral spread. Public Health Lessons for Non-Vaccine Influenza Interventions examines provides conclusions and recommendations from an expert committee on how to leverage the knowledge gained from the COVID-19 pandemic to optimize the use of public health interventions other than vaccines to decrease the toll of future seasonal and potentially pandemic influenza. It considers the effectiveness of public health efforts such as use of masks and indoor spacing, use of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies, and public health communication campaigns. Product Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ National Academies Press; First Edition (February 27, 2022) Language ‏ : ‎ English Paperback ‏ : ‎ 216 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0309088178 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0309088176